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Will it be an runaway weekend or a train wreck? Inclination may be to pick NYY vs. BOS, CWS vs. TB, NYM vs. WSH, or maybe COL vs. PIT. We’ll see. Problem with weekends are the players that rest that could effect your streak. Keep up with the projected lineups if possible. Rotoworld.com is a good source for that.

Hey guys, here’s hoping to a good weekend. I have Castro (at Milwaukee today). I know he hits better at home but he also hits second in the line-up and they are on the road, he will probably get 5 PA’s and at least 3 vs Wolf. Then I have Miggy and Kendrick to finish out the weekend, though nothing is set in stone, those picks could definitely change. GL to everyone today and this weekend.
@gpearson-I’ll be watching the Cubs games today for me and you, I’ll be pulling for Byrd to get you to 9!

@Champ88. I can guess why Posada: 500+ AVG, BOS pitching very suspect, and probably a ‘pick of the day’? He may see 5 PAs. I picked Jeter due to his AVG vs. Lackey, hitting high in order, and BOS/NYY games are rarely a 4 hit occurrence. Looking for minimum 4-5 PA. Only concern I have with Jeter is that he has been removed from game in late innings last year. With 2 ABs and 0-fer, hoping he gets at least 2 more.

@lav-haha, that would be nice. The more at bats the better.
@Vinny-you must be loving the 0-6 start the red sox are having, haha. Unfortunately, they are down 6-3 but only the third inning. GL with Drew!

@vinny-congrats, glad Drew came through for you. I am from Seattle so I am a Mariners fan I know they aren’t very good but every year us fans have hope, haha. Needless to say I am not too fond of the Yankees, especially after our 116 win season in 2001 when we lost to you guys in the ALCS. I do have to admit, I don’t hate them like most non-yankee fans do. I like Jeter, Cano, and Tex but was disappointed to see A-Rod win a ring. Anyway, hopefully they will win for you today! I like the blog by the way, keep it up!

gpearson: I’m not. I think you will find that most of those picks have overly large AVG vs. the opposing pitcher, Ichiro an exception in this case. I think majority are playing the odds, simple as that. Regarding Ichiro, who has never seen his opposing pitcher (if I recall correctly), it’s a pick of faith.

@Lav, you are correct my good man. Ichiro hasn’t seen Carrasco yet but I think he won’t get a hit though.
@baseballgirlie, can I have your email as I update the blog every day but this weekend and I email it to certain people only. Thank you very much for the kind words too.

Hard to imagine with 6 plate appearances for each CarGon & Tulo and they are both 0-fer. Can PIT win it? Maybe with a long ball, but removed Walker in a double switch. I wouldn’t be surprised to see those 2 get another AB each. CarGon pickers must be feeling destiny. But which destiny is it… streak+1 or back to zero? We’ll eventually find out ;)

And its over.
CarGon & Tulo pickers didn’t just get slapped in the face, they got sucker punched. Combined took out 13% of the field & over 3 pages of perfect streakers. CarGon entered the day with a 350 avg down to 269 in just one day! Oh BTW, McCutcheon no hits in 6 PA also

So the LAD/SD game was suspended, and I just read the rules. I see that people who picked Matt Kemp were credited with a hit. But suppose you picked Headley (0-2 thru 8 innings); that pick is still valid for the continued game tonight, right? And you could have a simultaneous pick for the Saturday games too, right?

@gperarson: Correct. Though the picks are not really simultaneous. One is for yesterday and one for today. If Headley gets a hit and today’s pick does not, reset to zero. If Headley fails and today’s pick gets a hit, streak of one.

^^ I think Headley pickers were credited with a reset too. Just the way the system works. But if he does get a hit and their picks for today also hits. The system will tally the correct streak (i.e., still perfect, though showing reset as of right now).

To all: FYI. Notice I changed my avatar. Not sure if it always shows up in all browsers, but if you wish to do something similar, go to gravatar.com, create an account and add your own avatar/image. Nice touch for this year’s blog IMO

I stayed up for most of the Padres/Dodgers game as well but went to bed about an hour before they suspended it. That does suck that they waited so long and then chose to suspend it instead of doing it earlier, I didn’t think the game would get played but they kept coming back after each delay. Anyway, hoping Miggy will get me to 4. GL everyone!

@gpearson-congrats on getting to 10. Actually that is no small feat. Getting to double digits is hard to do. I mean, think about it, you have to do that four more times plus another week on top of that to win so you should be happy. I’m pulling for you to keep it up. Who are you thinking of for tomorrow if you don’t mind me asking? Anyway, GL though and hopefully you can keep it going ;)!

I just did something that I know will come back to haunt me: I changed tomorrow’s pick. I originally had Cabrera, but his numbers for Sunday are SO good they’re scary. But I tend to shy away from the really obvious pick in favor of a simply solid pick. So I’m switching to Billy Butler. I know I shouldn’t second guess myself like this — but here I am…

Very 1st post above made on Friday morning, I asked will this weekend be a runaway or train wreck. Looks like the train has jumped the tracks. Field resets Friday: 26.6% Saturday: 29.1%. And today’s Top2500 had over 1,000 reset! These numbers are not necessarily uncommon at beginning of the season, but quite large nonetheless.
Will Sunday return to ‘normal’ or be another slaughter…

And to drive the weekend reset numbers home. We started with 405 perfect streakers entering Friday. Sunday morning, 126 remain; nearly a 70% kill-off in just 2 days.
Also we now have a 5-game separation between 1st page (10 gamers) and Top2500 last page (5 gamers).
Crystal ball says today will be much better as long as Mi.Cabrerra, Cano & Ichiro don’t go 0-fer. I think they will be heavily picked today.

^^ For those new to the Top2500 listing, it crunches stats for top picks of just the 100 standings pages, 25 players per page. Afterall, we don’t care about the entire field do we? It also includes the bloggers group members whose streaks are same as, or better than, the last streak on page 100. FYI, to quickly jump to any page in the Top2500 standings, simply change the ‘pg’ number in the URL shown by your browser.

Through everything except the late game, only 61 out of 126 streakers have advanced to an 11-streak. Another 13 have a player in tonight’s game. Cano has the most with six picks, but four of them have picked A-Rod, who isn’t even starting.

@LaV thx. I hopefully will have a couple minutes to run the top2500 at lunchtime that way I get the early game. Post will be up at approx 630pm est. ( we’re busier at work today then I originally thought we were going to be)

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